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The budget passed on a 69-to-5 vote with several of the Republicans who voted against it ... The Rhode Island State House, where the House of Representatives on Friday evening was debating a ...
The shooting death of 16-year-old Dillon Viens in February 2022 was not the only potentially preventable tragedy that led the Rhode Island House on Tuesday to vote 45-to-23 for legislation ...
Just past 1:30 a.m. Friday, Rhode Island's part-time lawmakers closed up shop for the year after a nine-hour blur of final votes. Here's what to know.
The Rhode Island House of Representatives is the lower house of the Rhode Island General Assembly, the state legislature of the U.S. state of Rhode Island, the upper house being the Rhode Island Senate. It is composed of 75 members, elected to two-year terms from 75 districts of equal population.
The House passed along the bill to the Senate on Nov. 19, however, there’s just a short time left in the legislative session, so it’s unclear if a vote will be scheduled in time.
In May 2021, the RI House of Representatives passed a pathway to the $15 minimum wage which will gradually increase the minimum wage from its current $11.50 an hour to $15 by January 1, 2025. [14] In the 2021 legislative session, Morales introduced several bills related to labor rights.
From 1663 until 1842, Rhode Island's governing state constitution was its original colonial charter granted by King Charles II of England, a political anomaly considering that while most states during the War of Independence and afterwards wrote scores of new constitutions with their newly found independence in mind, Rhode Island instead continued with a document stamped by an English king.
House Judiciary Chairman Robert Craven acknowledged the legislation introduced by Rep. Joseph Solomon that was up for a vote Tuesday was a response to the "blowback" to last year's move.